Quote by Anatole France
It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion. -

It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion. – Anatole France

Other quotes by Anatole France

The poor have to labour in the face of the majestic equality of the law, which forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread. – Anatole France

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Equality
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Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me. – Anatole France

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Books
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Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function. – Garrison Keillor

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The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit. – Aristotle

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But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing. – Thomas Paine

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Nature

Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher. – William Wordsworth

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Whether he likes it or not, a man’s character is stripped at the poker table; if the other players read him better than he does, he has only himself to blame. Unless he is both able and prepared to see himself as others do, flaws and all, he will be a loser in cards, as in life. – Anthony Holden

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In the Lords Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach. – Woodrow Wilson

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